Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club 24 October 2014, Sochi Vladimir Putin took part in the final plenary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club’s XI session. The meeting’s theme is The World Order:…

Intertwined Jewish power families are an important aspect of Jewish history, cementing business relationships by creating networks of close relatives who married only among themselves—e.g., the Court Jews of 17th- and 18th-century Europe (see…

Whether as a result of recent icy to quite icy diplomatic relations between the two nations, or just because it has other motives, Israel had clearly abstained from joining the US effort to contain the…

ITAR-TASS Lavrov: Russia ranked second on Obama’s list of threats “One more thing I found bizarre was that the U.S. President said several times the world had become freer and safer,” the Russian foreign minister…

Violence is Golden By Jack Donovan peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state A lot of people like to think they are “non-violent.” Generally, people claim to “abhor” the use of violence, and violence is viewed negatively by most folks. Many…

Ex-CIA Official Proposes Assassination of Putin In a recent op-ed, a former CIA official suggested the removal of Russian President Vladimir Putin, by assassination if necessary, should be the primary objective of the Obama…

US knew all along what it was doing in Ukraine Wikileaks https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html#efmBTnBfi OPEN LETTER TO GERMANY signed by William Binney, former Technical Director, World Geopolitical & Military Analysis, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research…

Given the very high stakes of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, some analysts wonder what’s the real motive for taking this extraordinary risk over Ukraine. Is it about natural gas, protection of the U.S. dollar’s dominance, or an…